>Clearly, the 2nd Amendment needs to be brought into the 21st century. The only reason it has not happened yet is because too many politicians have been bought off by the NRA.

I second that notion... yet another of the many reasons why this freaking country desparately needs political campaign reform measures put into place IMO. But hey, I might as well ask Santa for my Mt Everest for that matter, it only took us 30 years to get the line item veto, and now we cant even make up our minds who gets to use it first!